La Maison de Bernarda Alba

Written at the dawn of Francoism and the Second World War, La Maison de Bernarda Alba is one of the few plays in the repertoire whose characters are exclusively female. In a village in the Andalusian countryside, a family lives in isolation. The mother, Bernarda, leads a hard life for her five unmarried daughters, but when the ugliest is about to make a money marriage with the handsomest man in the area, the whole household organization is thrown into disarray. Masks fall, hearts are inflamed, the community is torn apart and rhetoric becomes radicalized in a mad one-upmanship...